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congratulations!!

not much to update, plants are growing really good, getting new sprouts on the crypts and the sword and the water sprite is growing stupid fast. i’ll probably trim and replant the water sprite sometime soon. betta is looking very vibrant too so that’s good pics to come later :)

i’m definitely gonna enter in march 🤷‍♂️

lol :rofl: yes, definitely want to get some anubias, just haven’t found any good specimens yet :) just to grow it out, keep getting more plants, and in the future some more shrimp once i get more hiding places. i would love to have a small shoal of cory’s but i dont know how compatible they...

you did an incredible job @WhistlingBadger, always such a positive energy :)

all the plants seem to be doing great, especially the water sprite. still haven’t found the shrimp which makes me think the betta go to them unfortunately :/ i’ve noticed a bit of algae starting to form on some of the plants so i’m going to reduce lighting time this week and see if it goes away.

and i’m thankful for that every day thank you very much, i really appreciate that it is absolutely brutal, easily the hardest thing i’ve ever done. some people (including one of my coworkers who used to do hardcore drugs) say nic is harder to drop than cocaine or meth or other stuff. it’s so...

exactly, people make excuses for vaping like “at least it’s not cigs” or “it’s safer than cigs” which it’s really not. i make that excuse for a long time that at least i wasn’t smoking cigs, but i was putting hundreds if not thousands of unknown chemicals into my lungs, including heavy metals...

the crypts and val’s will be good for planting deep, just make sure they have plenty of lighting and make sure the flow isn’t too strong.

i know better than anyone that’s more than true, and it’s sad because there’s even middle schoolers doing it. the big vape companies know exactly what they’re doing with their marketing scenes, and designing flavors that taste like candy and sodas so kids will be more enticed by them. it’s a...

not really, just the deeper you plant it the more material there is to break down and rot under the substrate. but i’ve never had any issue planting crypts, anacharis, val’s, etc as deep as possible. what plants are you looking to plant?

congrats on making that change brother! that’s a huge step. as a recovering nicotine addict myself i can safely say its not easy at all. i was easily hitting my vape over 250 times a day for about 2 years straight, i was heavily addicted and thought i could never quit. but with my gfs constant...

been a long while, but me and my absolutely favorite person ever :)

definitely gonna enter :hey: yes that’s definitely a possibility! oh yeah definitely, crypts are nasty little things 😭😭 i did slap a foot tab under it and the sword and sprites so im hoping to see some explosion!

got a crypt yesterday! roots were a bit messed up so i’m hoping it recovers, but it’s a good addition i also got the sword planted and i’ve very happy with how that looks :) and some more blurry pics of the betta :lol: i can’t find the shrimp which makes me think the betta might have eaten...

i’m hoping to plant the sword today, it’s a gorgeous plant very healthy and already has roots coming out of it

thank you!! i’m excited for this tank too :)

side shot of the tank and some better pics of the betta and shrimp the tank is really coming together and i’m loving it. i need to get a better CUC (clean up crew) and im thinking more snails but i also might look into some cory’s but im unsure how aggressive my betta is, and only time will...

gotcha, was worth a shot checking. if you have a lot of hard scape in your tank, shrimp love hiding, so they could be scattered out. hopefully when you feed them later they’ll all come out in the open :)

absolutely horrible pics but i’ll get some better ones later. got a gorgeous galaxy koi betta today along with a massive amazon sword. i still need to actually plant the sword so it’s gonna look a little different but i haven’t started on that yet :) the betta had just come off the truck...

have you checked your filter? even if it’s a HOB (hang on back) filter, shrimp will still crawl in there to breed and hide because the water flow isn’t strong and there’s a lot of trapped food that’s easy to pick.